Personage is essentially a crime of identity theft. A living man or woman is deliberately presumed to be some form of incorporated entity instead and their lawful Trade Name is trespassed upon and mischaracterized to secure this end.

An example would be a living man named “James Clarence Penny” being deliberately mistaken as a C-Corporation doing business as “JC PENNY”, or a public transmitting utility doing business as “JAMES C. PENNY” or a public estate trust doing business as “JAMES CLARENCE PENNY” or a co-operative doing business as “JAS C. PENNY” and so on and on.

Barratry is the associated crime of bringing charges against living people under the false presumption that they are in fact legal fiction entities.

The American Bar Association has practiced both personage and barratry against the American people since at least 1933. The Prima Facie evidence for this stands upon the court records of every maritime and admiralty court allowed to dry-dock in this country.